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Cass McCombs

Maybe a minute passed before I knew I’d be singing “Karaoke” for the rest of my life. The second song on Heartmind, the tenth album by Cass McCombs, “Karaoke” is a god-level burst of power-pop perfection, as fetching as anything Cass has ever cut. The springy staccato guitar, the vaporized electric keys, the melody seemingly born for singing or clapping or dancing along: Cass triangulates a perch of his very own out among The Go-Betweens, The dB’s, and The Cure, and vibrates there, a beacon. And then, of course, there is the song’s playful if painful lyrical conceit—the lover who is making all the sacred motions of commitment but whose feelings may be no more deep or real than someone simply reading the lyrics for “Vision of Love” or “Stand by Your Man” from some crowded bar’s TV screen

Robbie Lee: Prismatist

by Troy Dostert
January 31, 2022

Multi-instrumentalist Robbie Lee has been crafting inventive music since the early 2000s, in a variety of contexts including a rock and roll outfit called Creature Automatic and sideman appearances with folks ranging from Cass McCombs to Mary Halvorson. Lee's duo album with Halvorson, Seed Triangular (New Amsterdam, 2018) is worthy of special note, as it features ...